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US 29527699 A 19990420

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The processing system includes a speech recognizer residing on a computer device. The recognizer receives speech training data and processes the training data into an intermediate representation of the training data. The speech recognizer further communicates the intermediate representation to a second computing device. A speech model server resides on the second computing device. The second computing device is interconnected via a network to the first computing device. The speech model server receives the intermediate representation of the speech training data and generates a speech reference model using the intermediate representation. The speech model server is further operative to communicate the speech reference model to the first computing device. A lexicon coupled to the speech recognizer stores the speech reference model on the first computing device. Independent claims are also included for the following: (a) a distributed speech processing system. (b) a method of building speech reference models for use in a speech recognition system.

A distributed speech processing system for constructing speech recognition reference models that are to be used by a speech recognizer in a small hardware device, such as a personal digital assistant or cellular telephone. The speech processing system includes a speech recognizer residing on a first computing device and a speech model server residing on a second computing device. The speech recognizer receives speech training data and processes it into an intermediate representation of the speech training data. The intermediate representation is then communicated to the speech model server. The speech model server generates a speech reference model by using the intermediate representation of the speech training data and then communicates the speech reference model back to the first computing device for storage in a lexicon associated with the speech recognizer. <IMAGE>